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In a small town, it's cheaper to go horizontal. Maybe in SF it makes sense to go vertical but not in a place where land is cheap.
by MRD85 8y ago
In a small town, it's cheaper to go horizontal. Maybe in SF it makes sense to go vertical but not in a place where land is cheap.
- CalRobert 8y agoThe trouble is that requiring the parking is a big part of what makes places impossible or unpleasant to walk in in the first place. That bank would have been part of a nice walkable street but (if required to build all the parking) would be part of just another American asphalt hellscape. And who wants to walk in that?
- MRD85 8y agoI agree but I was commenting on economics. Western cities seemed to be planned around cars as opposed to walking and public transport. In my country we have the ideal of a large suburban house with a yard. This takes up space, which causes cities to spread out and cars become the norm.